[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 4, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E448-E449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING THE 175 INVENTORS INDUCTED AS THE 2016 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL 
                          ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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                            HON. LAMAR SMITH

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 4, 2017

  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 175 
inventors who will soon be recognized at the John F. Kennedy 
Presidential Library & Museum and inducted as the 2016 Fellows of the 
National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in an induction ceremony that will 
feature a keynote address by U.S. Commissioner for Patents Andrew 
Hirshfeld. In order to be named as a Fellow, these men and women were 
nominated by their peers and have undergone the scrutiny of the NAI 
Selection Committee, having had their innovations deemed as making 
significant impact on quality of life, economic development, and 
welfare of society. Collectively, this elite group holds nearly 5,500 
patents.
   The individuals making up this year's class of Fellows include 
individuals from 135 research universities and non-profit research 
institutes spanning the United States and the world. The now 757-member 
group of Fellows is composed of more than 90 presidents and senior 
leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 
376 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
Medicine; 28 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 45 
recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and 
U.S. National Medal of Science, 28 Nobel Laureates, 216 AAAS Fellows, 
126 IEEE Fellows, and 116 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & 
Sciences, among other awards and distinctions.
   The NAI was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors 
with patents issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 
enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage 
the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative 
students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit 
society.
   We are greatly indebted to innovators such as these for 
contributions to society through their inventions. I commend these 
individuals, and the organizations and taxpayers that support them, for 
the work they do to revolutionize the world we live in. As the 
following inventors are inducted, may it encourage future generations 
to strive to meet this high honor and continue the spirit of discovery 
and innovation.
   The 2016 NAI Fellows include:
   David Akopian, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Kamal S. Ali, 
Jackson State University; A. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, 
Berkeley; Carl R. Alving, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Hamid 
Arastoopour, Illinois Institute of Technology; Peter Arsenault, Tufts 
University; B. Jayant Baliga, North Carolina State University; Zhenan 
Bao, Stanford University; Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University; Francis 
Barany, Cornell University; Jean-Marie Basset, King Abdullah University 
of Science and Technology; Paula J. Bates, University of Louisville; 
Craig C. Beeson, Medical University of South Carolina; K. Darrell 
Berlin, Oklahoma State University; Sarit B. Bhaduri, The University of 
Toledo; Pallab K. Bhattacharya, University of

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Michigan; Dieter H. Bimberg, Technical University of Berlin, Germany ; 
Christopher N. Bowman, University of Colorado Boulder; Barbara D. 
Boyan, Virginia Commonwealth University; Mindy M. Brashears, Texas Tech 
University; Donald J. Buchsbaum, The University of Alabama at 
Birmingham; Ruben G. Carbonell, North Carolina State University; John 
F. Carpenter, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Raghunath 
V. Chaudhari, The University of Kansas; Junhong Chen, University of 
Wisconsin--Milwaukee; Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, 
Taiwan; Simon R. Cherry, University of California, Davis; Michael J. 
Cima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Adrienne E. Clarke, La 
Trobe University, Australia; Larry A. Coldren, University of 
California, Santa Barbara; Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland; 
Diane J. Cook, Washington State University; Peter A. Crooks, University 
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Riccardo Dalla-Favera, Columbia 
University; Suman Datta, University of Notre Dame; Delbert E. Day, 
Missouri University of Science and Technology; Roger A. de la Torre, 
University of Missouri, Columbia; Stephen W. Director, Northeastern 
University; Jeffrey L. Duerk, Case Western Reserve University; James L. 
Dye, Michigan State University; Richard L. Ehman, Mayo Foundation for 
Medical Education and Research; Gary A. Eiceman, New Mexico State 
University; Ali Emadi, McMaster University, Canada; Ronald M. Evans, 
Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Stanley Falkow, Stanford 
University; Hany Farid, Dartmouth College; Shane M. Farritor, 
University of Nebraska--Lincoln; Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt 
University; Denise L. Faustman, Massachusetts General Hospital; David 
R. Fischell, Cornell University; Vincent A. Fischetti, The Rockefeller 
University; David P. Fries, Florida Institute for Human and Machine 
Cognition; Kenneth G. Furton, Florida International University; Kanad 
Ghose, Binghamton University, SUNY; Juan E. Gilbert, University of 
Florida; Linda C. Giudice, University of California, San Francisco; 
Herbert Gleiter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Dan M. 
Goebel, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Forouzan Golshani, California 
State University, Long Beach; Lorne M. Golub, Stony Brook University, 
SUNY; John B. Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin; Michael 
Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Robert 
J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research; 
Richard M. Greenwald, Dartmouth College; Patrick G. Halbur, Iowa State 
University; Henry R. Halperin, Johns Hopkins University; Amy E. Herr, 
University of California, Berkeley; D. Craig Hooper, Thomas Jefferson 
University; Edward A. Hoover, Colorado State University; Oliver Yoa-Pu 
Hu, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan; David Huang, Oregon Health 
& Science University; Mark S. Humayun, University of Southern 
California; Joseph P. Iannotti, Cleveland Clinic; Enrique Iglesia, 
University of California, Berkeley; Sungho Jin, University of 
California, San Diego; Barry W. Johnson, University of Virginia; 
William L. Johnson, California Institute of Technology; John L. 
Junkins, Texas A&M University; Michelle Khine, University of 
California, Irvine; John Klier, University of Massachusetts Amherst; 
Thomas J. Kodadek, The Scripps Research Institute; Harold L. Kohn, The 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Steven M. Kuznicki, 
University of Alberta, Canada; Enrique J. Lavernia, University of 
California, Irvine; Nicholas J. Lawrence, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center 
& Research Institute; Leslie A. Leinwand, University of Colorado 
Boulder; Frances S. Ligler, North Carolina State University; Yilu Liu, 
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jennifer K. Lodge, Washington 
University in St. Louis; Gabriel P. Lopez, The University of New 
Mexico; Mandi J. Lopez, Louisiana State University; Surya K. 
Mallapragada, Iowa State University; Seth R. Marder, Georgia Institute 
of Technology; Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University; Raghunath A. 
Mashelkar, National Innovation Foundation--India; Kouki Matsuse, Meiji 
University, Japan; Martin M. Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine; T. 
Dwayne McCay, Florida Institute of Technology; James W. McGinity, The 
University of Texas at Austin; Thomas J. Meade, Northwestern 
University; Katrina L. Mealey, Washington State University; Edward W. 
Merrill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paul L. Modrich, Duke 
University; H. Keith Moo-Young, Washington State University Tri-Cities; 
David J. Mooney, Harvard University; Israel J. Morejon, University of 
South Florida; Harold L. Moses, Vanderbilt University; Joseph R. 
Moskal, Northwestern University; Nazim Z. Muradov, University of 
Central Florida; Nicholas Muzyczka, University of Florida; Lakshmi S. 
Nair, University of Connecticut; Shrikanth S. Narayanan, University of 
Southern California; Erin K. O'Shea, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 
Ellen Ochoa, NASA Johnson Space Center; Francis A. Papay, Cleveland 
Clinic; Kevin J. Parker, University of Rochester; Yvonne J. Paterson, 
University of Pennsylvania; George N. Pavlakis, National Institutes of 
Health; Kenneth H. Perlin, New York University; Nasser Peyghambarian, 
The University of Arizona; Gary A. Piazza, University of South Alabama; 
Christophe Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael C. Pirrung, 
University of California, Riverside; Michael V. Pishko, University of 
Wyoming; Garth Powis, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery 
Institute; Paras N. Prasad, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ronald T. 
Raines, University of Wisconsin--Madison; Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, 
Carnegie Mellon University; Michael P. Rastatter, East Carolina 
University; Jacob (Kobi) Richter, Technion-Israel Institute of 
Technology, Israel; Richard E. Riman, Rutgers, The State University of 
New Jersey; Andrew G. Rinzler, University of Florida; Bruce E. 
Rittmann, Arizona State University; Nabeel A. Riza, University College 
Cork, Ireland; Kenneth J. Rothschild, Boston University; Stuart H. 
Rubin, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center; Linda J. Saif, The Ohio 
State University; Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida; John T. 
Schiller, National Institutes of Health; Diane G. Schmidt, University 
of Cincinnati; Wayne S. Seames, University of North Dakota; Michael S. 
Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins 
University; Mrityunjay Singh, Ohio Aerospace Institute; Kamalesh K. 
Sirkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; David R. Smith, Duke 
University; James E. Smith, West Virginia University; Terrance P. 
Snutch, The University of British Columbia, Canada; Ponisseril 
Somasundaran, Columbia University; Gerald Sonnenfeld, University of 
Rhode Island; James S. Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara; 
Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, The University of Texas at Austin; Bruce W. 
Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Daniele C. Struppa, Chapman 
University; Kenneth S. Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign; Mark J. Suto, Southern Research Institute; Yu-Chong Tai, 
California Institute of Technology; Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University; 
Fleur T. Tehrani, California State University, Fullerton; Marc T. 
Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford University; Madhukar (Mathew) L. Thakur, 
Thomas Jefferson University; Mehmet Toner, Massachusetts General 
Hospital; Jan T. Vilcek, New York University; Anil V. Virkar, The 
University of Utah; John F. Wager, Oregon State University; William R. 
Wagner, University of Pittsburgh; Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State 
University; John D. Weete, Auburn University; Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue 
University; Ralph Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital; Thomas M. 
Weller, University of South Florida; Jennifer L. West, Duke University; 
Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology; Yun Yen, Taipei 
Medical University, Taiwan; Warren M. Zapol, Massachusetts General 
Hospital.

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